2017 Exhibitions & Events

Allen Boudreaux: New Orleans Street Nights December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 2, 6-9pm Osterhold Boudreaux Gallery & Studio presents a solo show of the night and street photography of local photographer Allen Boudreaux. Though mostly shot in the same locations ( in and around the French Quarter and downtown New Orleans) the images in […]

Antenna Part 2 Featuring Carl Joe Williams, Tammy Mercure, Ernest Littles, and Kristen Downing December 9, 2017- January 7, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6-10pm During the run of Prospect Antenna with have shows highlighting Collective Members and other artists from the New Orleans art community. December features Carl Joe Williams, Tammy Mercure, Ernest Littles, […]

Title TK December 6, 2017 – January 2, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 7-10pm ANTIGRAVITY has fostered some of New Orleans’ freshest photographic talent for over a decade. TITLE TK, our third showcase in partnership with PhotoNOLA, features select original images by regular contributors and staff. In keeping with ANTIGRAVITY’s mission of documenting New Orleans […]

Ashley Gilbertson Presentation Sunday, Dec 10, 11am THNOC Williams Research Center Free and open to the public Ashley Gilbertson, an award winning photographer and writer with the VII Photo Agency, will be presenting his work concerning the Iraq war, the Bedrooms of Fallen Soldiers, and refugees. Gilbertson’s photographic chronicle of the Iraq War was published […]

Ashley Gilbertson Workshop Dec 8 & 9, 2017, International House 10am-4pm Class limit: 12 Workshop fee: $395 Register Here Anyone can make a strong photograph – as evidenced by a cursory glance at some of the 2 billion photos uploaded every day. What makes a great photograph? Emotional content. Mood. Feel. This workshop will be […]

Bart Everson: After the Peak December 1-30, 2017 Opening: Thursday, December 7, 6:00 – 8:00pm. After the Peak is a fantasy about post-oil America. Every schoolchild knows that fossil fuels are not renewable resources. Someday, we will run out. The question is when. Some say we’ve already passed the peak of production, while others say […]

Beneath the Surface: 1920s New Orleans in Rotogravure December 7, 2017 – January 31, 2018 Opening: Friday, Dec 8, 7-11pm For years, Joseph Makkos salvaged letterpresses and cases of rare type from local defunct print shops. He was trawling through Craigslist one day in 2013 when he came upon an ad for a “historic newspaper […]

Brent Houzenga: Vigilante’s Lens December 9, 2017 – February 9, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6:00 – 9:00pm. Vigilante’s Lens features new work by New Orleans Artist Brent Houzenga. The exhibition will include original instant and film photography, photograms, as well as new paintings and assemblage. Each piece in the exhibition looks at the popular […]

Off the Street: New Orleans and Venice in Charles Lovell’s Photography December 9, 2017 – January 7, 2018 Opening: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Artist/curator public discussion, and film showing of La Strada by Frederico Fellini: TBD Solo exhibition of Charles M. Lovell’s street photographs from Venice, Italy and New Orleans […]

Click Bait December 9, 2017 – January 7, 2018 Opening: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. A group show exploring the seductive properties of photography and its ability to employ human curiosity as a catalyst for interaction. Clickbait is an exhibition of photographic media that expands — and slows down — the […]

Community Workshop: Platinum Printing with Bostick & Sullivan December 6, 2017 Xavier University 10am-6pm Registration is Free for NOPA Members | Limited to 12 participants REGISTER HERE In this hands on workshop participants will learn the process of utilizing digital technology to produce archival inkjet negatives for contacting printing, and will be introduced to the […]

CURRENTS 2017: NOPA Members Showcase December 7, 2017 – February 4, 2017 Opening: Friday, Dec 8, 5 – 7pm, Juror’s Talk with Richard McCabe at 6pm CURRENTS is an annual exhibition which highlights the diverse photographic work being created by NOPA members. CURRENTS 2017 was juried by Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the Ogden […]

Esther Murphy: Rotten Mandarin December 10, 2017 Opening: Sunday, Dec 10, 5pm-9pm Rotten Mandarin is an open studio event featuring recent work by Esther Murphy. In 2016-17, Murphy photographed the immediate surroundings of her apartment building in Shenzhen, China. As with previous bodies of work, Murphy explores themes relating to culture and language through her […]

Frank Relle: Night Works December 1-31, 2017 An evolving show from Frank Relle’s ongoing night-lit explorations of New Orleans architecture alongside Louisiana swamps and bayous. Frank Relle is a photographer born and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. His work is included in the […]

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint September 25 – December 15, 2017 Opening: Monday, Sept 25, 2017, 5-7 pm Panel: Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017, 6:30pm In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz’s “Quaking Aspen: […]

Hands Around the World December 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6:00 – 9:00pm. Hands Around the World Let us celebrate one another. Let us celebrate the things we have in common, as well as the things that make us unique. For World Cyanotype Day 2017, Shootapalooza and the A Smith […]

In Print: Multi-Artist Photo Book Panel & Signing Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 3:30-5:00pm PhotoNOLA and The Stacks present a special photo book focused panel and book signing. Authors of recent photography publications will discuss how book making fits into their photographic practice, and share insights into their varied publication processes, from concept to print.The artists […]

Insentient Objects: Capitalism, Commodification, and Catharsis December 9, 2017 – January 7, 2018 Opening: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Gallery Talk at 7pm with International Photographer Jose Fernandes of C+J on documenting the Other and the necessity of working in close collaboration with artist cross social and cultural lines. Artist owned […]

Janet Holmes: Someone not Something December 2-30, 2017 People who visit a farm animal sanctuary for the first time often do not know what to expect. Sure, they know a sheep is woolly, a cow is big and roosters crow, but those are just superficial descriptions. Looking deeply into a goat’s eyes and realizing that […]

Jason Kerzinski: Portraits In Reserve December 8, 2017 – January 19, 2018 Opening: Friday, Dec 8, 6:00 – 9:00pm. Recently, Jason Kerzinski’s travels have taken him to Reserve, Louisiana to document the lives of those who live near the Dupont/Denka plant. Since the plant started making neoprene (a widely-used synthetic rubber) back in 1969, the […]

Jeana Wiser: Bed-Stuy Block | Brooklyn December 1-31, 2017 In November 2014, Jeana Wiser moved to Brooklyn from the west coast. This marked not just her entrance to a new city, a new coast – but also entrance to a new chapter in Jeana’s life. Part of that chapter included quiet time with her camera, […]

Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast Skaters December 8-9, 2017 Opening: Friday, Dec 8, 6pm – with live music Jenny Sampson presents her unique, in-camera tintype portraits of West Coast Skaters that were made on location with her portable darkroom. Jenny traveled and photographed skaters over seven years in California, Oregon and Washington. The two […]

Jose Torres-Tama: Somos Humanos / We Are Human December 9, 2017 – February 4, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 4-8pm On Opening night, Jose Torres-Tama, photographer and performance artist, will offer an Open Studio talk on the series called “Somos Humanos / We Are Human” at 7pm, and all PhotoNOLA attendees will hear an intimate […]

Josephine Sacabo: Barking at God – Retablos Mundanos October 14 – December 31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Oct 14, 5-8pm PhotoNOLA reception: Sauturday, Dec 9, 6-9pm All that’s left for me is to bark at God. – Clarice Lispector I began working on the images one day out of anguish and ended up rescued by a […]

Julie Verlinden: Into the Sea December 1-31, 2017 Julie Verlinden presents her series Into the Sea. A small island. Shaped by limestone. The water, contrasting in color and texture, provides beautiful salt and food. It also connects the island to the rest of the world. Ladders on the rocks, are a quick way out or […]

Karen Lozinski: Music Life in New Orleans December 1-31, 2017 Music Life in New Orleans by Karen Lozinski examines moments of intimacy in and around performance, centering on New Orleans musicians and brass bands. Karen is particularly drawn to the dichotomy between the public and the private in the execution of any work of art, in […]

Kenneth Pape: NIGHTHAWKS December 7 – 10, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5:30-9pm This four day pop-up exhibition by New Orleans based photographer Kenneth Pape will be a digital presentation shown on a 21″ monitor consisting of 20 Black and White images on a continues loop. The theme is about people who are habitually up […]

Kerry Mansfield: Expired December 1-31, 2017 Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday, Dec 9 at 2pm In elementary school, Kerry Mansfield spent many lost afternoons hiding in the library nook reading while settled deeply into a green vinyl beanbag chair surrounded by the scent of musty paper. The first rite of passage upon learning how to […]

Les Schmidt: Storm December 2, 2017 – January 9, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 2, 6-9pm Guy Lyman Fine Art is pleased to present Storm, a preview of photographer Les Schmidt’s new abstract series of archival pigment prints taken with an old BlackBerry Storm smartphone. His photograph Storm 64 was a finalist for this year’s Camera USA™ 2017 National […]

Louis Sahuc: Rain & Fog: New Orleans Weather December 9-10, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5:00 – 7:00pm. Refreshments. Photo Works will be featuring a special exhibit of Louis Sahuc‘s “Rain & Fog: New Orleans Weather”, gathering together some of the photographer’s most iconic images of weather — in all its many forms — found […]

Mary West Quin: Mariposa December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5-8pm For PhotoNOLA 2017, Nadine Blake presents cyanotypes and platinum prints by Mary West Quin. Mariposa The flight of the butterflies—often passing through the deep south to the heart of the Yucatan. From the hubris of American civilization to the ruins of a collapsed […]

Michael Kenna Photographs November 30, 2017 – December 30, 2017 Opening: Thursday, Nov 30, 5-8pm Michael Kenna travels the world, attuned to the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual resonance of natural and urban landscapes, which he seeks to capture in his exquisite black-and-white photographs. Kenna uses long exposure times and shoots in inclement weather to obscure […]

Michel Varisco: Below Sea Level November 17, 2017 – February 25, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5-8pm A native New Orleanian, Michel Varisco has dedicated her decades-long career to exploring the endangered environs of Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf coast, including the tenuous relationships between organic and engineered environments. Through a deep immersion in our […]

Monique Verdin [Prospect.4] November 18, 2017 – February 25, 2018 Film Screening: My Louisiana Love, Sunday, Dec 10, 2:00pm Monique Verdin is a daughter of southeast Louisiana’s Houma Nation. The complex interconnectedness of environment, economics, culture, climate and change have inspired her to intimately document Houma relatives and their lifeways at the ends of the […]

Movement and Purpose Parker Stevenson and Christy Lee Rogers December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6 -9pm Graphite Galleries in the French Quarter is honored to present a startling juxtaposition of new works by artists Parker Stevenson and Christy Lee Rogers. Vivacious in movement and purpose, both artists capture the hope and vulnerability of […]

Muffin Bernstein: Pollination December 1-31, 2017 Muffin Bernstein creates the series Pollination using living insects and sacred geometry. Each piece is printed on a die cut circular metal disc. Sacred geometry is believed to be the source of all life and when one meditates with it you can reach another dimension. Butterflies and bees are […]

Murmuration of Lights December 7-10, 2017 Opening: Thursday, Dec 7th, 5pm In Santeria tradition white candles are used to elevate spirits and bring peace, and for devotions in remembering and contacting departed souls. Murmuration of Lights collects a broad and colorful array of work in honor of Judy Sherrod. The images will be displayed on […]

New Work by the Members of the New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom December 9, 2017 – January 4, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6 – 10pm A group show of analogue photographic works by New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom Members Brian Barbieri, Lara Morgan, Chrystal Lea Nause, Max Seckel, Rachel Speck, and Antonia […]

PhotoNOLA & P4 Meet December 1-29, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 2, 7-10pm Artists’ Talks: Saturday, Dec 16, 4-7pm During the Opening on Saturday Dec. 2 The Hill Country Hell Hounds will be performing. Water is Life. Erin Nelson, Muffin Bernstein, and Elisa Mason are all photographing water and the life that it creates. This photographic […]

PhotoNOLA meets LunaFete: After Party presented by NOLA DNA Friday, December 8, 9-11PM PhotoNOLA and LunaFete artists and attendees are invited to meet and mingle at an after party at the Picayune Social House from 9-11pm on Friday night following the PhotoWALK at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Arts Council’s […]

Pioneers to a WE Future December 1-28, 2017 Opening: Friday, December 8, 2017, 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The first hour of the opening is reserved for viewing. All Ashé spaces will be open–attendees will have opportunities to meet and chat with artists as they view the exhibition. The discussion begins at 7pm. The discussion […]

Please, could you stop the noise David Armentor, Thom Bennett, Sesthasak Boonchai, Kyle Roberts, David Rodrigue December 7, 2017 – February 4, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5-10pm and Saturday, Jan 13, 6-9pm Gallery Talk: Jan 13, 7pm Please, could you stop the noise is a five person exhibition of small, intimate works of the […]

Priya Kambli Presentation Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 10am Free and open to the public Priya Kambli’s artwork is intrinsically tied to her own family’s photographic legacy and her move at age 18, following the death of her parents, from India to the United States. Before she emigrated, she and her sister split their photographic inheritance […]

Richard McCabe: LAND STAR December 9-16, 2017 Opening: Saturday Dec 9, 6-10 pm Instant photographs by Richard McCabe from his LAND STAR series made from 2014-17. LAND STAR For the past three years, I have photographed exclusively with a 1960s era Polaroid land camera. I am interested in photographing temporary, obsolete, abandoned, and derelict sites. […]

Robert David Dutruch: La Poésie de la Terre December 1-30, 2017 Opening: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “La Poésie de la Terre”, which translates to “poetry of the land”, presents a selection of landscape photographs by Robert David Dutruch of Lost Hills Atelier. Taken with an 8 x 10 camera during […]

Sarah Paz Hyde: Wonder lost December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Friday, Dec 1, 7-9pm Wonder lost is an ongoing series that examines the relationship between childhood memories and their transition to adult recollections of the past. In capturing fabricated and found spaces, Sarah Paz Hyde encourages the viewer to connect with missing parts of themselves through visual […]

Skip Bolen / Rock n’ Roll December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 7-9pm “Skip Bolen / Rock n’ Roll” is a solo show of the photographic work of photographer Skip Bolen from shooting The Ramones performing at Ol’ Man Rivers in New Orleans on film to the re-grandopening of the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane […]

Songs of My People: 25 Years Later December 8, 2017 – January 12, 2018 Opening Reception: December 9, 2017, 3pm Curator’s Talk with Dr. Imani Cheers: Saturday, December 9, 4pm show hours: Friday December 8, 10am to 4pm Saturday December 9, 12pm to 6pm Show is closed from December 24 to December 31 In 1992 […]

Stephan Jahanshahi: Not Native December 1-31, 2017 For PhotoNOLA 2017, Solo Espresso presents an 8 piece, narrative body of work, Not Native by artist Stephan Jahanshahi. Not Native is a multimedia art piece consisting of text written in graphite on 8 photographs printed on mulberry paper. Shown together, the works offer a poetic retelling of […]

Zack Smith: The Battlefield Oak: A Year In Photographs October 7 – December 31, 2017 Grand Opening: Saturday, Oct 14, 5-9pm PhotoNOLA Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 6-9pm Please join New Orleans photographer Zack Smith at the opening of his new photography studio and workspace in Uptown New Orleans. To celebrate this new space, Zack will […]